There Is No Over, There's Only An End Poem by Leria Hawkins

There Is No Over, There's Only An End
Date: May 2,2016


I love you…
Your deep and lonely places
In the spaces where you hide your darkest desires
And I love you in spite of the differences
The distance
The insurmountable impossibilities
I love you still…
As, there is no "over" between us
There is never an "over" in a heart that cannot mend
There is only an end to the here and now

I suffer no fantasies, no grand illusions
We have reached our end…
We stand at the passage where fate turned us in a new direction
I walk alone in the face of this sad and certain finality
Pushing on…past my sadness, past despair
Past demons that threaten to swallow me
I push on, to the place of surrender
Resolving myself to this faithful truth
Though…we have reached our end
There is no over…

I cannot touch you, or see, or hear you
But there is a flame that burns on…
Flickering softly in my deep and lonely places
Steadily in the spaces where I hide my darkest desires
Love resides in that flame
Burning eternal in those places and spaces inside me
And it warms me in the sanctuary of midnight dreams
I live on…tormented by this cruel certainty
That while there is no "over", my love
There is an end.


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